The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 94Atlantic Monthly Company, 1904 |
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... matter in five minutes , if he is the man I take him for . But I hear he is sitting on his dignity , and waiting for me to send for him , and , at that rate , for I learn there are seventy letters , I don't know that anything can be ...
... matter in five minutes , if he is the man I take him for . But I hear he is sitting on his dignity , and waiting for me to send for him , and , at that rate , for I learn there are seventy letters , I don't know that anything can be ...
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... matter . " But what news to- day ? " " Mr. Fox has sent none . Send for Mr. Fox . " The servant could not find Mr. Fox . The President said , he had the most satisfactory communication from Lord Lyons ; also had been notified by him ...
... matter . " But what news to- day ? " " Mr. Fox has sent none . Send for Mr. Fox . " The servant could not find Mr. Fox . The President said , he had the most satisfactory communication from Lord Lyons ; also had been notified by him ...
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... matter . - -- - Now you've done fighting , I can talk to you a little again but I've nothing to say . I keep the house pretty fairly in order , and keep my garden weeded and the gardeners never disturb the birds ; but the cats eat them ...
... matter . - -- - Now you've done fighting , I can talk to you a little again but I've nothing to say . I keep the house pretty fairly in order , and keep my garden weeded and the gardeners never disturb the birds ; but the cats eat them ...
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... matter with him , whether he had been on a spree . He sat in one of the armchairs of the outer office provided for waiting clients , and , looking neither to the right nor to the left , stared at the square of green carpet beneath his ...
... matter with him , whether he had been on a spree . He sat in one of the armchairs of the outer office provided for waiting clients , and , looking neither to the right nor to the left , stared at the square of green carpet beneath his ...
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... matter was com- plicated , and it led him to speak again of the hotel and of other affairs , of his entire connection with the contractor , to tell the complete story of his business career in the city . The lawyer did not try to stop ...
... matter was com- plicated , and it led him to speak again of the hotel and of other affairs , of his entire connection with the contractor , to tell the complete story of his business career in the city . The lawyer did not try to stop ...
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Page 684 - O Lord, from whom all good things do come ; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration 'we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 662 - It may be pertinacity," said he, at length ; " but to my eye these grey hills and all this wild border country have beauties peculiar to themselves. I like the very nakedness of the land ; it has something bold, and stern, and solitary about it. When I have been for some time in the rich scenery about Edinburgh, which is like ornamented garden land, I begin to wish myself back again among my own honest grey hills ; and if I did not see the heather at least once a year, I think I should die!
Page 382 - ... together, and walked together that evening on the hills above, where the fireflies among the scented thickets shone fitfully in the still undarkened air. How they shone ! moving like fine-broken starlight through the purple leaves. How they shone ! through the sunset that faded into thunderous night as I entered Siena three days before, the white edges of the mountainous clouds still lighted from the west, and the openly golden sky calm behind the Gate of Siena's heart with its still golden words,...